Lisa sits down with group coaching alum, Theresa, as she bravely shares her life story and the ways in which eating and dieting are interwoven in the highest and lowest points.

Topics Include:

[5:00] Theresa reflects on her earliest memories around food, eating, and body image and when things went from “normal” to more difficult and describes the rules that were imposed on what was and wasn’t allowed when it came to food

[13:00] Theresa remembers family members worrying that she was getting fat during early puberty and put on her first diet

[18:30] Theresa reflects on getting her first job and having money for the first time and how that impacted her relationship with food and experiences a dichotomy of thrill and intense guilt and what it meant to be in high school believing she was fat

[29:30] Theresa opens up about her relationship with her mom and how Theresa’s brother’s death affected the family dynamic and shares how she went on a wildly expensive and restrictive diet as a gift to herself post high school graduation

[35:00] Theresa shares the roll food and body image played in her first romantic relationship and subsequent break up

[42:00] Theresa gets pregnant by her cheating boyfriend and has her first daughter at 23 years old, falls in love with her new role, and gains a lot of weight, and does a diet and finds her baby a dad, moves across the country to run from her daughter’s biological father, and again, gains a lot weight

[49:00] Theresa has two more children, continues to struggle with her weight, finds a church and joins OA and finds community, was very poor and manages to always put on the food table

[50:00] Theresa is changed by a Book called “Women, Food, and God,” joins a book club, and learns and engages with intuitive eating and loses 50 pounds and learns her mother is dying from cancer and moves across the country to be close to Theresa and explains how that affected her relationship with food and eating

[59:00] Covid hits, and Theresa begins excessively checking her sugar and goes back to dieting and eventually is put on a protocol by a functional medicine doctor

[1:07] Theresa finds Lisa through Nicole Sach’s podcast and binges the OOTC podcast

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